Do you still maintain that Obama is a pragmatic, practical, problem solver? Then you must also believe that the the Northeast is suffering from heatwave. Courtesy of some friends on the Hill, we know that:

President Obama’s new Chief of Staff used to blog for the liberal website Think Progress. Check out the tweet by thinkprogress: "Former ThinkProgress blogger Denis McDonough will be named the new White House Chief of Staff today." Oh, his new Communications Director did too. Another tweet from thinkprogress: "Former ThinkProgress blogger Jennifer Palmieri will be named the new White House Communications Director." And you thought the old first term "czars" were bad.